Whenever we drove past the Jack Astor's, I always read the writing under the logo as "Boy & Girl." I thought that maybe Jack was the boy and Astor was the girl and they founded the restaurant together. I never really questioned why Astor was a strange name. A couple of years later, after finding out I was near-sighted and had gotten glasses, we came across the sign again. I could now see that the sign read:
"Bar & Grill"
D'oh!
A childhood belief about excursions

others believed things like this
- A billboard sign read: Moonshine kills.
I thought being caught outside by the moon would kill me. Humph.Anon - I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I thought for the longest time that a No Standing traffic sign meant no person should stand near that sign.— Shannon
- I thought Jack was a nickname for Jackery ( like Zack and Zachary).— Bootlebat
- "She's got the Jack" by ACDC was "She's got the Clap".— Cybela
- I used to believe that tornadoes were spinning jack-o-lanterns in the air bent on destroying my house.Anon